St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-25

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hood bubbles perennially. The boys who
belong to the Carnival clubs will hail the an
nouncement of Miss MITCHELL's return with
intensest pleasure. She is one of the tobog-
gamers herself, for she wears the badge of
membership of every club in the city, and
her portrait decOrates every club room.
Miss MITcHELLs repertoire for the week is
announced follows: Monday, ''Little
Barefoot" Tuesday, Pearl of Savoy We'd
nesday, ''Lorle, or The. Artists Dream
Thursday, Maggie the Midget Friday,
Pearl of Savoy" Saturday evening, Fan
chon the Cricket" ane Saturday matinee,
Maggie the Midget
MAGGIE MITCHELL has a new play written
by HOWARD P. TAYLOR called 1.-The Little
Sinner" which her company is now rehears
g,and which she may possibly be able to pro-
duce wilhelm ST. Paul. Miss MITCHELL season
opened last Thursday night in Duluth. from
whence she comes direct to st. Paul. She has
with her the same company she had last sea-
son, with the exception of two new people.
Miss STRONG formerly of MILE. REA's COM
pany, and Mr.. STERLING who has been for
several years with the FLoRENCEs, are the
new members.
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Some men have the faculty of telling NUN
CHAUsEN-like yarns with such easy grace as to
preclude all doubts ON the part of the listener
BILLY FLORENCE, the comedian, is an exem-
plification of this fact in his hilarious delin-
cation of PINTO PERKINS, 1.-The Governor"
In this comedy BILLY tells the most remarka-
Bile ''corkers' with suaviter in mode which
IS most artistic personification of inno-
cent fact. MI. FLORENCE was playing the
part the other night when well known dude,
famous for hanging around stage doors,
strolled in just in time to hear 1.-The Gov
ernor' say: 'sWhen was consul general to
Persia" That settled it. The dude was
anxious to make BILLY's acquaintance and
here was his chance. He rushed out to the
box Office, requested a sheet of paper and en-
yeiope and sent note to the comedians
dressing room, begging for conversation in
re Persia. The jovial comedian saw chance
D Tor good joke and invited the gentleman
round. And he came and thus discussed:
'Ah, Mr.. FLORENCE, was in London, don't
cheTllnOw, when the shaw of Pershaw was
there. Now, as you seem to know him,
don tcherknow, should like to find out if
Rall the wonderful stories that were told
about him were really true, don tcherknow,'
quite true" replied the imperturbable
comedian; lin fact they might. have
been truer." You don't say,r re-.
|splied the entranced dude; "then be
has all those diamonds, and wives, and
land dust storms interrupted FLORENCE.
Nor Eyes, sir, dust storms: that's where
he get gets all his diamonds. I'll tell you.
You see there the wind blows at the rate of
200 miles an hour, but the soil is so heavy
that 1t only gets torn up in places and is left
in huge banks. Those are what are called
the pyramids" II beg PARDON" suggested
the dude, Il thought the pyramids were in
Egypt" WELL responded BILLY, lit all
depends upon the wind; sometimes they're
i'll Egypt, sometimes in Persia just according
to how the wind changes. Now the only time
they have real strong binding dust storm is
when the Suez canal runs dry" dear me,r
said the Englishman, Il never heard of that
"Of course not; they keep it dark. You
needn't say told you, of course. ~ s:Oh, de-
cidedly not" swell, it is just these dust
storms that provide all the diamonds for the
shah of Persia. I'll tell you how that is.
You see, the European steamers have to 90
very slowly through the Suez canal in order
TO give the passengers a good chance TO be
seasick. Now in their excitement and con.
tinual clinging to one another they fire.
quently drop their jewels overheard, but the
water is SO strong that it destroys everything
but diamonds; they sink :. to the bot
tom and when the canal dries
up and the wind rises-oh! this
is an exciting time. Then the Persians do
what they call ''going fishing Of course
there is no such thing as fish in Persia, be-
cause the laws don't allow more than one
sort of seales-see! So the Persians go out
with huge nets and meet the dust storm. The
dust percolates the net, but the diamonds
stick there, and, as q rule, they get four
bushels of diamonds to every ton of dust.
| That's what they call sick loan-we call it
cyclone in America. Simple thing, isn't it?
but very useful to the shah.'' Dear me,
Wonderful'' said the astonished English
man. 81 should like to go there. Give me
an introduction to the present consul, will
you! Whereabouts in Persia is his Officer
WELL said the unabashed comedion, 81
cannot tell you where he may be, but my
Persian office was the Fifth Avenue hotel,
New York. Call on me there next Christmas
| and I'll slow you Persian room with Per-
sian carpet, Persian cat, Persian -"
| But the unfortunate dude saw the sell and
fed before BILLY had time to fill him with
any more Persian.
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Col. JOHN McCAuLL, the web known opera
manager, attributes a sort of superstitious
Iveyerence to the letter "B." He pins his
faith to the second letter of the alphabet, be-
cause it has always been a peculiarly lucky
sNne for him as manager. All of his great
est successes in opera begin with it, ''Beggar
Student "Black Hussar," and 'sBellman,''
For that reason more than anything else he
has taken hold of Begun, the new Ameri-
can opera, written by HARRY SMITH and REG
INALD DEKoyEN, of Chicago.
Mrs. JAMES BROWN POTTER or CORA Por-
TER, as she prefers to call herself, viii arrive
/ in this country in time to appear at the Fifth
/ Avenue on Oct. 81, in ALBERT DEPTHS play,
E eMlIe. de Bressier." Miss MARY ANDERSON,
who saw Mrs. POTTER act in London, says she
was agreeably surprised at her improvement,
and feels sure she will make decided sue
ieess in the United States.
When Col. JACK HAvERLY decided to make
his home in st. Paul knowledgeous people
shook their heads and predicted that the re
nowned Snowman had a business venture in
his head, as well as desire to locate his
family in the pleasantest city in the world.
1t is now rumoFed that HAvERLY has big
scheme on hand to monopolize the theatrical
business in the Twin Cities. Manager HILL,
of New YORK. took run ont this way the
other day, and he and HAvERLY were dodg-
ing around together between the two cities
in mysterious sort of way that lent color to
the story of HAvERIY's intentions. One
rumor is that HAvEELr is negotiating for the
purchase Of both the st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis Grand opera houses aad will combine the
two under one management. The other
story is that he contemrlates building ucw
thcater in each city. the two to be fun to.